The Cult – Love
(Beggars Banquet/Virgin Records 1985 207388)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1
Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some light surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality)
Gatefold Sleeve in Excellent+ condition
– some wear to edges and some marks near top edge
Inner Sleeve in Nr MINT condition
The Cult are a British rock band that was formed in 1983. They gained a dedicated following in Britain in the mid 1980s as a post-punk band with singles such as “She Sells Sanctuary”, before breaking mainstream in the United States in the late 1980s as a hard rock band with singles such as “Love Removal Machine” and “Fire Woman”. The band fuses a “heavy metal revivalist” sound with the “pseudo-mysticism … of The Doors [and] the guitar-orchestrations of Led Zeppelin … while adding touches of post-punk goth rock”. Since their earliest form in Bradford during 1981, the band has had various line-ups, and the longest-serving members are vocalist Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, the band’s two songwriters.
After moving to London, the band released the album Love in 1985, which charted at No. 4 in the United Kingdom, and which included singles such as “She Sells Sanctuary” and “Rain”. In the late 1980s, the band dropped their post-punk sound in favour of hard rock with their third album, Electric; the polish on this new sound was facilitated by Rick Rubin, who produced the record. Their fourth album, Sonic Temple, proceeded in a similar vein, and these two LPs enabled them to break into the North American market. By the early 1990s, the band was fraying behind the scenes, due to alcohol abuse and off-stage tensions, leading to a split-up in 1995. The band reunited in 1999 and recorded the album Beyond Good and Evil, and they reissued all of their albums in Asia and Eastern Europe in 2003 and Japan in 2004. In 2006, the band reformed again to perform a series of worldwide tours. In October 2007, the band released the album Born into This, on the Roadrunner Records label. In July 2009, Astbury announced that The Cult would not record or produce any more studio albums, focusing on LPs and Digital Releases instead for new material, though he subsequently changed his mind and declared that there would be another album in the near future. Their ninth studio album, entitled Choice of Weapon, was released on 22 May 2012.
Love is an album by English rock band The Cult, released in 1985 on Beggars Banquet Records. The record has been released in nearly 30 countries worldwide, and sold an estimated 2.5 million copies. It gave The Cult commercial success in the UK and abroad. Love was recorded at Jacob’s Studios in Farnham, Surrey, in July and August 1985.
Track listing
All songs written by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy.
- “Nirvana” – 5:24
- “Big Neon Glitter” – 4:45
- “Love” – 5:35
- “Brother Wolf; Sister Moon” – 6:49 (Philippines version runs 5:18)
- “Rain” – 3:55
- “The Phoenix” – 5:06
- “Hollow Man” – 4:45
- “Revolution” – 5:20
- “She Sells Sanctuary” – 4:23
- “Black Angel” – 5:22
Personnel
- Ian Astbury – vocals
- Billy Duffy – guitar, acoustic guitar
- Jamie Stewart – bass, keyboards, background vocals
- Mark Brzezicki – drums
- Nigel Preston – drums on “She Sells Sanctuary”
Additional personnel
- Produced by Steve Brown
- The Soultanas – background vocals on “Revolution”
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